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BJ Penn Releases A Statement On USADA Violation

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Yesterday the UFC released a statement regarding BJ Penn‘s failure to follow USADA policy’s and pulled him from his fight with Cole Miller at UFC 199. BJ has decided to release his own statement through his BJPenn.com Website explaining the situation.

“I voluntarily disclosed to USADA that during a non-fight period that I had an IV administered under the care of a doctor.

“The rule for IV usage had changed since my last fight in the UFC and was unaware of the change and voluntarily disclosed the information to USADA. I had no idea that IV use was banned 365 days a year.

“At no time in my career in martial arts have I ever doped and anticipate all test results from USADA will come back clean and will be working with the UFC to get the matter cleared up and return to fight as soon as possible.”